A love song to Australia is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Paul Abdul Ahad

ADELAIDE

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Army of grapevine

Tells you about this guarded city

And the olive trees gesture you

With their leaning branches

The oranges opposite you

Singing the wind some songs

Cover your eyes with your kerchief

Adelaide the green heaven

Is going to offer you a gratuity

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Southerner

Her forehead is a desert

Her arms are boon's gardens.

Her breasts are barred mountains

Wooing a bird under the sun

Her hair is woodlands

The dust is its tint

And on her feet

There is heavy traffic

Adelaide

Its prairies are a flower

Its streets are like a lit convent

And its lamps are the convent's candles

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